Fake-Finding Contest

Fake-Finding Contest

Rewards - Rules - FAQ - Scoresheet and Trophies - Fakes with this Contest - Miscellaneous Questions - Goals - Archive

Note: this contest is officially over. It was last active around the end of 2011. I am leaving this page up as an archive, but do not expect further participation.

Throughout some of my fakes, I hide Easter eggs and references. I keep a scoresheet with points for the people who find such things in my fakes. So basically, this is running in a way similar to a find-the-fakes, except you have to answer questions which involve finding Easter eggs, interpreting the meanings of references, or figuring out how I faked something. Generally, find-the-fakes type things work well without any rewards, but I'll be offering a few simple (and a few far more complex!) custom-made rewards anyways. The rewards can be claimed by PMing me at Sal's Realm, Zybez, or Tip.It (links go to my profile), and are bought with the points you earn from answering my contest questions. However, you must post answers to questions in the topic they are on, and if someone posts a correct answer before you (even if they do so at another forum!), they get the point(s) for it.

Note that I also give points to a person each time I make them a fake award, and this image shows how I determine the points given per award. Please note that this game is available to members of Sal's Realm of RuneScape, Zybez, and Tip.It only! If you have a Sal's, Tip.It, or Zybez account, whether or not you are very active, or have just registered, you may participate. Also note that I run this competition almost always for any fake that I find worthy of dedicating an entire topic to, and that I will often make the contest available to two of the three forums. I usually wouldn't open the contest at all three simultaneously unless there are a lot of things to find, and I reserve the right to open the contest at only one of the three if I wish. Regardless of whether or not I make a topic with the contest at your forum, you are welcome to come to a forum which does have the contest and participate there, and you will be treated the same on the scoresheet regardless of which forum(s) you participate in the contest from (if you have a different name at another forum, however, please tell me, so I add you to the scoresheet correctly!).

Rewards, Rules, and FAQ

Rewards: For as cheap as 3₧ or as expensive as 750₧ (or more!), you may purchase a graphical reward of some sort from me. These can be as simple as forum emoticons, underbanners, file icons, or cursors, or as complex as entire fonts or 3D models. Each reward is custom-made to your liking (er, unless someone has already requested the exact same thing

), and you can use them wherever/whenever you want, so long as you don't claim you made them yourself. There are currently 21 different types of rewards, and the average price of my rewards is 29₧ (and over half my reward categories fall below this price anyhow). The average price of a 3D reward is 42₧. Please click here to see my reward categories and their prices.

Rules: Every game needs its rules. However, there aren't too many rules for such a simple game of answer-the-questions. Regardless, you may check them out if you have any disputes about how I run my contest or wanted to be sure you aren't cheating.

Frequently Asked Questions: Check this page if anything about my contest confuses you. It includes odd/specific situations where the technicalities may be confusing, as well as advice on playing this contest successfully.

Scoresheet and Trophies

Here is the current scoresheet:

(You may need to press Ctrl+F5 to refresh it)

Note: Players with zero Total Earned ₧ are not shown on this list.

Here is a key defining the various columns/rows of the scoresheet (click to enlarge):

Trophies earned by participants:

Fake-finding trophies are similar to fake awards in terms of appearance. They are earned by reaching a certain milestone of points in your "Total Earned" column, meaning spending points will not prevent you from earning a trophy. Note that fake-finding trophies are not fake awards and you do not earn them from faking, but you can still place them in your signature if you like. Aside from looks and your name being placed on the following list, trophies have no use. Here are the fake-finding trophies and those who have earned them:

Fakes with this Contest

Here is a list of fakes this contest has appeared in: